Isaiah 34:7

unicorns: or, rhinocerots. Hebrew. re'emin.

soaked. drunken. Figure of speech Hyperbole.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the unicorns - Margin, ‘Rhinoceros’ ( ראמים r e 'ēmı̂ym from ראם r e 'êm ). This was evidently an animal well known in Palest...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And the (h) unicorns shall come down with them, and the bulls with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

In preparation for the slaughter of earth Yahweh's sword has drunk its fill of wrath in heaven. Now, charged and sharpened with its fury, it descends...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

7. And the unicorns shall come down with them. This verse is closely connected with the former, for he adds nothing new, but proceeds with t...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven— The meaning of this period is, that on a certain day of judgment, which is elsewhere called the great day...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat w...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

4. Cp. 1 Isaiah 3:10 .
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Unicorns] RV 'wild-oxen.' Come down ] i.e. to the shambles.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And the unicorns shall come down with them... — Better, the aurochs, or wild bulls ... The Hebrew, rem, which meets us in Deuteronomy 33:1...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Reaping the Whirlwind Isaiah 34:1-17 This chapter is one prolonged description of the judgments which were to befall the nations at the hand of...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This and the following chapter constitute the second part of the final circle of the prophecies of judgment. Terrible indeed is the description of wo...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I pass over the several particulars in these verses, which mean one and the same thing, of God's judgments, differently set forth, to call the Reader...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the unicorns shall come down with them ,.... With the lambs, goats, and rams; that is, either the rhinoceros, as some, there being no such creat...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the unicorns shall come down The word ראמים, reemim , here rendered unicorns , is the same with that used Numbers 23:22 , where see the note...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings against God's Enemies. B. C. 720....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The unicorns, Heb. the reemim . But what kind of beast this is, whether that beast which is commonly called an unicorn, which seems to be but a fi...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And the wild oxen will come down with them, And the bullocks with the mighty ones, And their land will be drunk with blood, and their dust made f...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 34:1 . Come near ye nations to hear for the indignation of the Lord is upon all the kingdoms of western Asia. Those nations are named in J...
The Biblical Illustrator

Come near, ye nations, to hear. --The subject is, as in chap. 13., the Lord’s judgment upon all the nations; and as chap 13. singled out Babylon...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION 11. THE DIVINE JUDGMENT ON THE WORLD , AND THE GLORY OF THE CHURCH CONSEQUENT UPON IT ( Isaiah 34:1-23 ; Is...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Idumea as a Type of Hostility Against God
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And the unicorns, the Asiatic buffaloes, shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls, representing the sacrificial animals of the he...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 33:17 ; Isaiah 34:3 ; Jeremiah 46:21 ; Jeremiah 50:11 ; Jeremiah 50:27 ; Job 39:10 ; Job 39:9 ; Numbers 23:22 ; Numbers 24:8 ;...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The unicorns — It is confessed, this was a beast of great strength and fierceness; and it is used in this place to signify their princes and potent...

⁷ And the unicornsa shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 34:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 34:7